Brandt Brauer Frick ‎– Joy LP

Brandt Brauer Frick ‎– Joy

With their fourth studio album "Joy," the visionary German ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick ventures into bold new territory, pivoting from their signature "acoustic techno" roots toward a raw, industrial-pop sensibility that celebrates the complexities of the human condition. For the first time in their career, the trio—comprising Daniel Brandt, Jan Brauer, and Paul Frick—integrates a permanent vocal presence throughout the record, collaborating with the versatile Canadian artist Park City to create a dark, multi-layered narrative that balances euphoria with existential grit. Recorded over intense sessions that favored spontaneity and "first takes," the album strips away the clinical precision of the club scene in favor of a "Krautrock" spirit, blending distorted percussion and syncopated grooves with expansive choral arrangements. From the urgent, driving rhythms of "You Can't Run" to the avant-garde textures of "Holy Night," "Joy" serves as a defiant exploration of emotion in an increasingly mechanized world, proving that Brandt Brauer Frick remain at the absolute vanguard of experimental electronic music by finding the "soul" within the machine.

A1. You Can Make Me Love
A2. City Chicken
B1. Poor Magic
B2. Blackout 94
B3. Society Saved Me
C1. Keep Changing
C2. Holy Nights
C3. Oblivious
D1. Facetime
D2. Away From My Body